Sarah Brown is a global advocate for women and children’s health, and education.
She is the founding chair of Theirworld, a global children’s charity set up in 2002 that is committed to ending the global education crisis and unleashing the potential of the next generation.
From 2012, Sarah has been executive chair of the Global Business Coalition for Education. She led the first co-ordinated effort to work with private sector CEOs to expand private sector engagement to bring education to 58 million children who would otherwise miss out.
In 2008, Sarah became the global patron of The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, a maternal health advocacy movement, and she co-founded the Maternal Mortality Campaign.
She is a member of the UNICEF board for Generation Unlimited, a global partnership that empowers young people to become productive and engaged members of society. From January 2021, she became chair of the People’s Postcode Lottery Charity Advisory Committee.
Sarah is married to Gordon Brown, former Chancellor of the Exchequer (1997 – 2007) and UK Prime Minister (2007 – 2010). She gained a degree in psychology at Bristol University and has had several books published on parenthood, childhood and life in No. 10 Downing Street.